I like to use alt-x in tmux for copy-mode. This is fine on my Linux machine, but in Windows' Cygwin's xterm the Alt-x key does nothing.
I used AutoHotkey to check that other Windows applications can ...

I'm using Linux a lot, but I'm confused with it. Maybe it is stupid question, but whatever.
I'v logged in xterm to remote host by ssh. Now on the remote host i started command (rsync, a lot of data is ...

I've been trying for the past couple of days to get xterm to display the same font that I have gotten used to in konsole for the last few years – it works for me quite well even with relatively small ...

I'm using windows 7. Through MobaXterm I opened a window of eclipse (I enabled X11 forwarding and vcxsrv is installed).
For some reason I can't click on "ctrl + alt + 'key'".
I couldn't see if there ...

What's the most elegant way to start an xterm window that, instead of opening a bash shell for the local computer and requires me to execute my ssh command manually, opens an ssh session for remote ...

I have a Ubuntu 14.0 server with no graphical interface. I created this server only to use Octave on it. Now that there is a GUI for the recent version of Octave 3.8.x available I wanna know what is ...

I would like to run a long simulation (24 hours) in MATLAB installed on a remote linux machine, using xterm.
I have no problems connecting to the remote machine from my Macbook, and launching MATLAB ...

I recently switched my system from ISO-8859-15 to UTF-8 (I know I am a little late), works fine so far, I am just having a little issue with xterm and zsh.
When entering German - Umlaute (ä,ö,ü) and ...

I work in different machines each with their own display devices at various times in a day. For now, I have multiple xterm*vt100*geometry lines in my .Xresources file, manually commenting those that ...

My PCLinux system occasionally boots to (after login on the regular login screen) two white xterm windows with grey scrollbars on their lefts and NO system buttons (maximize,minimize,etc.) This screen ...

I'm using "screen -x" to mirror screens across two systems at the same time, but I seem to have an issue with resolutions. On most of my screen windows, the top portion (or bottom) is cut off when I ...

I noticed debian ships with a terminfo xterm+256color while most other distros only have (and is the default in osx) xterm-256color
looking at the info on both, i can see that xterm+256color is very ...

It happens for both urxvt and xfce4-terminal. When I press whatever I type before in the line disappears and gets replace by a colon. If you delete that colon the hidden part reappears.
The annoying ...

I have a weird behaviour that seems to be a combination of zsh and maybe urxvt (?)
My setup is this: I start urxvt -e 'tmux' to get myself a terminal which launches zsh as the default shell.
I then ...

I'm becoming fond of iTerm2, especially since my dumb mighty mouse doesn't do such a great job at 3-button emulation, or I'd stick with X, but I digress. Some background: In my X environment, I can ...

I would like to change the escape sequences used by some keys in my terminal. My goal is to define custom mappings in Vim (terminal version).
In the following I use shift-space as an example, but I ...

I have installed nxserver on a ubuntu machine and am able to connect to this machine via the free NX client on a windows machine. Things seem to be working fine except that the xterm has a weird NX ...

in my gnome terminal i can change the profile preferences to set the text color to green. i'm not talking about the prompt (this is already set up in blue how i want it) just talking about the general ...

I would like to clear my terminal upon hitting submitting an empty command. In other words, I would like to call clear when I hit Enter on empty line. Is that possible?
I understand that is not how ...